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　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.

一个三十多岁的男子在大城市谋生，为了走出混乱的生活，无意识地想象出一个幻想与现实并存的世界。

　　一次偶然中，阿秋（吴耀汉 饰）和贝多芬（岑建勋 饰）结识了犯罪调查专家阿文（许冠文 饰），志同道合的三人成为了很好的朋友。然而阿秋和贝多芬的真实身份系大盗，两人和阿文正邪不两立，而阿文对此并不知情，三人的关系在摇摇欲坠之中维系着艰难的平衡。　　某日，阿文在商场里撞见了自己的妻子杜白莉（胡茵梦 饰）正在和珠宝富商阿杨（翁世杰 饰）约会，遭到了背叛的阿文感到十分愤怒，决定对阿杨进行报复。阿文驾驶着自己的机车要和阿杨的豪车一决高下，哪知道遭遇了车祸，不仅自己受伤，坐骑也报废无法再骑，窘迫的时刻，阿秋和贝多芬及时出现，替阿文解了围。

　　帕特里克（让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰）是一名艺术品大盗，在偷窃珍贵的小提琴斯特拉迪瓦里的时候，帕特里克遭到了同伴罗曼（）的陷害，不仅颗粒无收还险些丧命。帕特里开隐居了起来，发誓要从罗曼的身上夺回属于自己的东西。　　帕特里克设计将自己的两个女儿卡罗尔（法米克·詹森 Famke Janssen 饰）和卡洛琳（丽姆·柯里奇 Reem Kherici 饰）召回到了自己的身边，身为一名父亲，他缺失了两个女孩的童年，如今，帕特里克希望能有补救他们父女关系的机会。刚开始，两个姑娘对帕特里克特殊的职业和诉求嗤之以鼻，但随着时间的推移，妇女三人之间的感情渐渐回温。